Are you time rich or time poor? It depends. Are you busy right now? Are you behind on what you wanted to accomplish today? Or this week? Or already this year? You’re not alone. It’s a common problem. In fact, it’s a problem so common it may qualify as a new epidemic: We’ve got [...]
Purpose and planning as it should be The new PlanPlus Online personal planning and organizing experience is designed to take you on the journey from the vague to the specific. From the vague ideas in your head to a specific action. From a dream in your heart to the specific action to be done at the [...]
PlanPlus Online has created a beautifully simple solution to dramatically increase your productivity in 2019. Soon, you can add the PlanPlus Online productivity Chrome plugin to your browser to help keep your task list right at your fingertips! Download Plugin Now Watch Video Explanation Designed to keep you focused on the few most [...]
In 2018, Desiree Linden became the first American woman to win the Boston Marathon since 1985. For a little perspective, 33 years before her win, the Soviet Union was still kicking, an actor named Ronald Reagan became President, and Marty McFly became the first person to time travel in a DeLorean. Linden won the [...]
The Eisenhower Matrix is a presidential insight about productivity: soon after Eisenhower became president, he visited the campus of Northwestern University to deliver an address. What he said changed the thinking about “productivity” forever. He said: “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never [...]
What can Pac-Man teach us about smarter goals achievement? Back in ancient days, well, the 1980s, there was an arcade game that conquered the world called Pac-Man. Don’t believe me? Go ask your parents if they played! Pac-Man is considered a classic and an icon of 1980s popular culture—in fact it even had an animated [...]
One of the most common complaints we hear has to with something that is so fundamentally a part of the modern workplace, it’s almost impossible to avoid. In fact, we all have to deal with it. Yes, I’m talking about the dreaded interruption. Here are a few suggestions about managing and minimizing workplace interruptions. Stop [...]
Everyone has two jobs to do: Do your work. Improve your work. How to improve your work In order to improve your work you must eliminate waste. To figure out what waste is in your company, ask the question whether the work or activity you’re doing is valuable to the consumer. In other words, would [...]
One of the keys to growing your sales is to figure out exactly who you're selling to and who are your best customers. If you focus on selling to more ideal customers and less to non-ideal customers you'll be more effective in your selling and you'll have better results. If you're like most people, this [...]
When you’re in the daily battle of getting things done on your task list—are you being efficient, or being effective? The last thing you probably want right now is a vocabulary lesson—but there’s only two words, and learning the difference between efficient and effective will actually increase your overall productivity. Being efficient Efficiency is how [...]
On a football team the most famous and recognizable player is usually the Quarterback. Most of us can name the quarterback’s of our favorite NFL teams, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Blake Bortles. But a lot fewer of us could actually name the left guard or the long snapper. While Quarterback’s are generally regarded as the [...]
A recent study found that employees are 22% more productive when they are happy than when they are unhappy. Now I know what you're thinking, well duh! However as obvious as it may seem we often don't act on this seemingly common knowledge. Sometimes we mentally put a barrier between our various tasks and happiness. [...]
